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when pulling up FV2 and many other sites, a black screen with adobe updates take it over

lauratodd
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help "this plugin is vulnerable and should be updated" activate adobe flash. keeps coming up on several of firefox sites. doesnt happen on chrome or internet explorer. Kaspersky says dont activate it... how do I get it to go away

'''help''' "this plugin is vulnerable and should be updated" activate adobe flash. keeps coming up on several of firefox sites. doesnt happen on chrome or internet explorer. Kaspersky says dont activate it... how do I get it to go away

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the-edmeister
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First, you are using a vulnerable old version of Adobe Flash. 2nd, don't ever respond to message like that which appear - unless you are sure the message is from the web browser or your security suite. There's a good number of nefarious messages like that floating around, to induce the user to install what might tuen out to be Malware or a virus laden piece of software.

Follow this to get the latest version of Flash for Firefox and have a "clean" installation of Flash.

First, grab the Adobe uninstaller from here: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

Then download the latest Flash Plugin version from here: Select Plugin-based browsers - the EXE version. https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Run the Flash uninstaller program, then reboot your PC. Then install the Plugin version of Flash. So you'll have a clean installation of Flash for Firefox.